The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-14
TIE STREET PAYING.
Some Estimates Made by tho board Of Pub.
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Since tho last meeting Of Council Mr..
F. L. Hoger the City Engineer, 1t the re.
quest Of the Board Of Public Works, has
made q careful survey Of the streets that
the "Robertson substitute proposes to
have the Board improve by paving this
year, and on the reault Of that survey the
Board has made what II GLAZING Ia a care.
iul estimate Of the amounts necessary to
do the work. Last evening these figures
were laid before Representatives. OF the
morning press. s{
The Boards estimated revenue for the
year Ia as follows: Appropriations. 81.
702 81; ten cent levy fund, SIf 900: con.
tingent fund, $4,000; total: Ss22, 70237,
In making ita estimate Of the amounts
necessary to do the work named In tho
"Robertson substitute" tho Board in.
cluded the cost not only OF grading and
paving, but Of crossings, rev curbinp aad
roaetting old! c%urbirg. The cost Of now
sewers was not considered; in fact, under
the provisions Of the substitute, which Ia
by the way, q part Of tho appropriation
ordinance as It now atandu, but few new
sewera are required. The estimaiesd cost
Of the various itomB aa made by the
Board are as follows:
l. Main street from Jonathan'a rsyine
to Third street; from Ninth to Eleventh
street; from Twelfth to Twenty fourth
streets; and on Twenty.tourth from Main
to Ohaplino street, S37,0 5 TO- By the
substitute only s30,205 81 is appropriated
for this work-a deficit according 10 the
Boards figures OF $3.50 3S,
2. Fourteenth street from Chapline to
Woods etreet $ll,421 IS. The substitute
appropriatea only $1,000 deficit OF
$4,42l IS. /. Nr oaW
s.. Eighteenth strcot from EoFto Wood
street. 1896 Is.
A. Nineteenth street from Eofr to Jacob
streets, $3,S07 SO. This 10 a part Of the
work ordered done last year: that part oil
1t from Nineteenth up Eoff to Eighteenth
and down Eighteenth to Chapline street,
has already boon done this year at q cost
Of S3,007 IL making the total cost, of the
Improvement to bs paid for this year,
S7,774 Al.
s. Curbs md cutters on tho leland,
S6,756 %. The amount appropriated for
this work by the substitute Ia but $4,000
"a deficit Of $2,75G5 %.
8. Paving Seventeenth street from
Market to Chapline as per terms Of tho
Fisher sale, ,S1,133 o.. Crawling South
Front street, $3.50 50.
These aumH make a total OF $772,S 1856 A
which taken from the total estimated re.
venue leaves $9,956 03.
In making the estimates enumerated
above, the paving of the streets in items
2 and 4 wHs computed ct Sl.26 per equare
yard, which includes grading and laying
the pavement complete. These two pieces
OF work were contracted for last year at
that price. All tho other paving was com.
puted st $l.l6 per square yard, that being
the price named in the bid Of one con.
tractor who wants TO do some OF
this years paving. He only bids
however for $4,000 equare yards. The
next bidder wants 81 Is per square yard,
and only wants to do so much work, Tho
next bidders price Is 81 90. AS the work
was computed at 81 10, the Board cslcu.
lates that 1t must allow at least $4,000 for
the work over and above that that can
be done for, 81 l6 per square yard. This
amount from the last named sum
leaves only 1886 % for the Board to OK.
pend. Il has already spent $s,2G7 this
year, a difference Of $3.50 OF, which the
Board says it Is liable for under the pro-
%visions Of the substitute, according to the
opinion Of City Solicitor Caldwell, az e1-
pressed to, and underatood by the Board.
The Board claims that the alleged esti-
maten and calculations under which the
figures named in the substitute were ar
rived at are wrong in almost every particu-
lar, and that the whole thing is impracti-
cable, az shown by their estimates given
above. They say the streets must 90 un-
cleaned il the substitute is carried out.
The matter will probably come up in
Council again tonight.